Word: elected
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...minorities: Southern whites, Jews, "ethnic"* blue-collar workers, blacks and campus-oriented intellectuals. Despite the disparate backgrounds and views of these blocs, the coalition was remarkably durable. It produced 20 consecutive years of Democratic Administrations, survived the virtually unbeatable heroic appeal and victories of Dwight Eisenhower, and regrouped to elect John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Severely split by the riotous Chicago convention in 1968, it began to reunite in the last weeks of that campaign and fell just short of putting Hubert Humphrey in the White House. But in 1972, while the coalition held much of its strength in electing...
...Colorado, Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Delaware, Dick Clark in Iowa and William D. Hathaway in Maine?are liberals. Haskell, 56, a tax lawyer, is a former Republican who turned Democrat two years ago in protest over Administration policies culminating in the U.S. movement into Cambodia. New Republican Senators-elect are mostly staunch conservatives: James A. McClure in Idaho, Jesse Helms in North Carolina, Dewey Bartlett in Oklahoma and William L. Scott in Virginia...
Rules-require a simple majority to elect members to the committees. Most of the pro-Union panel members had met the night before to choose a group of people who might work together, but other students were also nominated at yesterday's meeting...
...Institute of Politics announced Friday the appointments of two freshman Congressmen-elect to one-month fellowships at the Institute, beginning November...
William S. Cohen (R-Me.) and Alan W. Steelman (R-Tex.) will join Congresswomen-elect Barbara Jordan (D-Tex.) and Yvonne Bruichewaite Burke (D-Cal.), both named earlier, in a special program for Representatives-elect...